RELIEF STRIKE

Hokitika Guardian, 17 May 1932, Page 5

RELIEF STRIKE

A FEW MEN GO OFT

DETAILS AT CHRISTCHURCH-

(By Telegraph—Per Press Association.)

■ May 16. "f .Out of 1520 )tihe^^e^ :i men.. who Would have comnieh'e^'r?^dfh-;bh •jobs in’ Christchurch; xjfftelton anil the feWvirons"'this i’e’spMded to the call to strike, as a protest against the new rates of pay. . There was : little picketing. The ponce organisation in preventing picketing was verjP'Sfficient. Tile biggest group of strikers werp those employed by the Railway Department. Of the 166 men employed, JOG struck. Eighty of the 106 were engaged clearing weeds off the Middleton. Railway Yards, which yards are not now used.

At Lyttelton 43 out of 52 men struck.

Forty men out of the 268 employed by the City Council, joined the strike, although these are paid with the City Council’s subsidy, at the rate ofel4s 6d per day. • • iVt Rlccarton, off the 25 relief workers, employed by the Borough" Council; nil struck .

On all- the other works, the .strikers have numbered quite a ■ small proportion of those employed.

NO PICKETING AT WELLINGTON, \

MAJORITY CONTINUE WORK.

WELLINGTON, May 16/

A deputation from a mass meeting of unemployed relief workers, numbering eleven hundred, waited this morning on the Alliance of . Labour, Trades and Labour Council^ and Local Labour Representation Comftifttee. ' The official report, issued later .stated that the unemployed had the full / support of the Labour, movement jn Wellington, and every effort would be made to bring about a satisfactory : settlement of the dispute. Further conferences are pending. : It wa s' stated by ; the 1 Labour De-y'fi. partment officials at” four o’clock tins;/) afternoon that 1116 men had been;at'./ work onWe rtelief jobs in Wellington.;.!'* An allocation had) been made for 2000 though more could have been placed, had they reported for work . . . The day was cold/with frequent heavy showers! Most of the jobs wei’e visited by the police, but there was; no active picketing.. . ‘

Negotiations are continuing between the'Strikers’j Committee and the Alii-, a nee of Labour Committee.'

Organised Labour is co-operating with thfe strikers with a view to rendering evGi'y pdsSikie assistance. •’•/.; ■ A sttup kitchen at the Trades Ilall is caring for those taking part in the, various meetings.